Tack-hammer.



T. H. BOWDIDGE. TACK HAMMER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.2G, 1913.

1,097,521. Patented May19, 1914.

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THOMAS H. BUWDIDGE, 015 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TACK-HAMMER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, THOMAS H. Bownrnen, a citizen of the United States, residing at 39 Haverhill street, in the city of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Tmprovement in Tack-Hammers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to tack hammers and more particularly to that class of tack hammers provided with tack magazines.

It has been customary heretofore to provide the tack hammer with a hollow handle which thus serves as a tack magazine. This construction requires a readily removable closure of some kind to close the open end of the handle to hold the tacks therein. Tack hammers having tack magazines located in their handles have a limited capacity for tacks and are dil'licult to operate, when it is desired to remove tacks, owing to the necessity of removing the closure.

The object of the present invention is the provision of a light and cheap tack hammer provided with a magazine of simplified and improved construction which is convenient to operate, which will hold a larger quantity of tacks than that which has heretofore been practicable and which with less expenditure of time and effort will permit the removal of tacks therefrom.

To the accomplishment of this object and such others as may hereinafter appear the features of the invention relate to certain devices, combinations and arrangements of parts, hereinafter described and then set forth in detail in the appended claims, which possess advantages readily apparent to those skilled in the art.

The various features of the present invention will be best understood from an inspection of the accompanying drawing illustrating the best form of the invention at present known to the inventor, in which,

Figure 1 is an elevation of the tack hammer, and Fig. 2 is an underside plan on the line 22, 1.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the tack hammer consists of a hammer head 1, a handle 2, and an independent tack magazine 3. The hammer head 1 is pro Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 26, 1913.

ltatcnted May 19, 1914.

Serial No. 750,791.

vided with a central bore at which is interiorly threaded to receive a threaded rod 5 projecting from the tack magazine The tack magazine is provided at its lower end with a central bore 6 which is interierly threaded to receive a threaded rod 7 having a head 8 which is pinned to the upper end of the handle 3. l Vith this construction the tack magazine may be detached and the hammer head 1 directly connected to the handle 3 by rotation of the head on the threaded rod 7.

The tack magazine 3 consists of an exterior fixed cylindrical casing 9 and an interior rotatable cylindrical casing 10 aranged concentrically of the casing 9. The casings are provided respectively with openings 11 and 12. By rotating the casing 10 within the casing 9 the openings ll and 12 may be caused to register to permit the introduction of tacks into and their removal from the casing 10. To provide means for such rotation the casing 10 carries a knob 13 which may be grasped by the operative when it is desired to rotate the casing 10. The knob also acts as a stop to limit the extent of rotation of the casing 10.

In use the knob 13 is grasped and the eas- 10 rotated to the right (Fig. 1) to cause the openings 11 and 12 to register. A quantity of tacks is then introduced into the magazine and the opening closed by a reverse rotation of the easing into the position of Fig. 1. When it is desired to obtain tacks from the magazine the handle is grasped by the right hand, the casing 10 is rotated to the right, Fig. 1, and the tacks are dumped out to the extent required into the palm of the left hand by a twist of the wrist of the right hand.

What is claimed as new, is:

l. The combination with a hammer head having an internally threaded socket, of a handle having an externally threaded stud to fit the socket in the head, whereby said handle may be detachably connected to the head, and a tack magazine having an ternally threaded stud at one end adapted to lit the socket in the hammer head, said magazine also having an internally threaded socket at its other end to fit the stud on the handle, whereby said magazine may be defor detachably connecting it to and between tachably mounted between the head and the head and handle. handle.

2. The combination with a hammer head THOMAS BOWDIDCTE' and handle having means for detachably lVitnesscs: connecting them to one another, of a tack BION B. LIBBY, magazine having means at its opposite ends GRACE A. DEVER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

